Essays Tagged: "believing in god"

Alvin Plantinga's states that Christians do not need any arguments for believingin God because believingin God is a properly basic belief. He goes further to say that ar ... I happen to be wearing red glasses, the fact that something looks red will not be good grounds for believing that it is red. But even if we can't ever be sure about taking beliefs such as "I am seein ... agic? Or The Great Pumpkin? On the contrary, we may reject such beliefs if there are reasons for disbelieving them. Although our beliefs are "innocent until proven guilty," it is quite possible for th ...

provides the rationale behind the belief that one would be more reasonable and compassionate by not believingingod. Also, the morals of society come into question as the two brothers question societ ...

er Alyosha, discuss if God is just and give examples to support their questions. Ivan suggests that believingin God, or spirituality for that matter, can bring unhappiness and suffering. Ivan explain ... nt of a torturer. These two problems are the fundamental source of Ivan's despair. Ivan states that believingin God will bring suffering because God's ways are mysterious and unexplainable. Ivan's re ...

om their homes to a place that would haunt their dreams forever. Those people whose only crime, was believingin God, were separated from each other, some would say that Elie Wiesel and his father wer ... various concentration camps until they were finally freed Elie became old and withered. He stopped believingin the God he had always turned to, He also became selfish and greedy. By the time he was ...

revelation. They needed strong arguments that were unbiased to show the world of god's existence.In believingingod we first must prove that god exists. This brings us to the two most important argum ...

e time that slavery was part of our history, till the present, African Americans have never stopped believingin God.The first part states the disclaimer, in other words the preacher is only preaching ... in the way they do now, because they would be punished for it. Even then however, they did not stop believing and worshiping him/her.

ueen Mary Is reign. Catholic priests were driven out of the country during Queen Elizabeth's reign. Believing in God was essential, not only if you wanted to stay alive after death, but also if you wa ...

-believers? The strongest answers to this question are that god does not want everyone to be saved, believingingod tests how worthy one is of salvation, and the unknown-purpose defense; yet they all ... etime.Since god is omniscient, god would have already known which people would and would not end up believingin him, and hence, instructed the disciples not to travel to those areas because it would ...

n of 'wise' precepts to live by in the Bible, we start off by learning that true wisdom is found inbelievingingod. No doubt Nobel prize winners for science are devout worshippers.i.28: No merciful ... mistranslation of what the author really wrote, which was I was effused from Oulam, from Ras"ix.10: Believing ingod and thinking you understand him is equated with intelligence.xiii.24: This verse ju ...

he replied "some people do not believe in praying or ingod". I could not believe this, someone not believingingod. After that I still prayed in school, but silently. In a public school there are ki ...

il is one of the oldest arguments against the existence of God. There is a logical contradiction inbelievingin God AND believing that there is evil in this world. Theists believe that God is perfect ...

the word of the Lord and the goodness of the Lord.Vision of the Thrones, a work by Giotto shows how believingin God and following through with his teachings will bring you happiness and a place in He ...

s the highest expected utility is in the best interest of whomever is acting. Thus, when applied to believingin God or not believingin God, says Pascal, one should believe because belief yields the ... uld sway all rational people to believe in God as well. As Pascal sees it, the equation proves that believingin God is in one's best interest as well as a rational choice. He also believes that even ...

Anyone in her family who opposes God, like Beneatha. Beneatha was punished for her actions for not believingin God, with a slap on the face. This warned everyone not to oppose God in her house. This ...

oned on the subject of morals. Russell believes to understand if a man's morals are to be a sign of believingin God that must be proven (138). He believes that distinguishing between good and bad are ... oned on the subject of morals. Russell believes to understand if a man's morals are to be a sign of believingin God that must be proven (138). He believes that distinguishing between good and bad are ...

s, if man is still in existance, he will then call the religion that we have today a myth and beginbelievingin "god" in a different way.In conclusion, religion is not real. The search for the truth ...

em believe the stuff they hear? No, and on the other side of the world you are sometimes killed for believingingod. As you can see, the world in its entirety can not be saved, no matter what. If we ...

metaphysics andepistemology have sought to access the various grounds peoplehave offered to justify believingin God.The faculty of pure reason was supposed by Kant to be thefaculty that produced the ...